Let's hear it—this one time—for the NYPD. Arizona resident Jennifer Foster was visiting Times Square on Nov.ember14 when she and her husband witnessed a uniformed officer commit a remarkable act of kindness. A homeless, shoeless man was begging for change, but the cop went the extra mile. Here's what Foster wrote to the NYPD:
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The officer has been identified as 25-year-old Lawrence DePrimo, who happened to be working a counter-terrorism post when he saw the man. “It was freezing out and you could see the blisters on the man’s feet. I had two pairs of socks and I was still cold," he said. After finding out the man's shoe size, he went into a shoe store and purchased a pair of $100 boots for the man. When employees realized what he was doing, they gave him $25 off.
DePrimo says he holds on to the receipt to remind him that "sometimes people have it worse.”
[via Gothamist]
